ABA Practice Exam 1

Behavior analyst are interested in functional relations between behavior and

• Mental events
• Psychological events
• Physical events in the environment
• All of the above

Which of the following is an assumption of modern behaviorism?

• Covert behavior is of no interest
• Behavior can be entirely explained by the environment
• Behavior is lawful and orderly
• All of the above

When the behavior can be observed only by the person performing it, the behavior is

• covert
• overt
• sub-operant
• unconscious

Operant behavior is ________ whereas respondent behavior is ________.

• elicited;emitted
• emitted;elicited
• covert;overt
• overt;overt

If you were to make a list of all of the things that you can do at this time, the list would be your

• operant list
• learning history
• response class
• behavioral repertoire

An antecedent event 

• occurs before a behavior
• occurs after a behavior
• only affects respondent behavior
• is a covert event

Behavior analysts holds the view that

• problem behaviors are a symptom of an underlying psychological disorder
• the problem behavior is the problem to be addressed
• correcting a problem behavior without solving the underlying psychological disorder opens the door for other problems to emerge
• underlying psychological problems can be identified by a careful analysis

Which of the following is NOT part of  a behavioral assessment?

• identifying the target behavior
• identifying a suitable intervention
• identifying the psychological cause of problem behavior
• conducting a functional analysis

using continuous recording, two observers record the number of times George winks at Claudia during a one-hour period. One observer recorded 30 winks and the other observer recorded 60 winks. The inter-observer reliability is

• 20
• 50
• 30
• 45

Which of the following dimensions of behavior is of interest to applied behavior analysis

• latency
• duration
• frequency
• all of the above